Capital Age Festival

Recently there have been reports that festivals such as Glastonbury were thinking about limiting the number of older people turning up at their events because teenage audiences weren’t happy being out numbered by middle aged ravers reliving their youth.

This Sunday the Capital Age Festival, part of the Coin Street Festival, is aimed at an even older group but is open to all ages to come and enjoy new work from London’s older actors, poets, musicians, singers, dancers and artists on the banks of the Thames.

On three stages they’ll be dance performances from groups such as the Iberian Dancers, Harrow Asian Dancers, Proteas from South Africa, Caribbean Quadrille and Lucianites, Green Candle Senior Dancers, Sunshine Grannies and Recycled Teenagers as well as live music from Riverside, the Matt Ross Quartet and steel pan band Nostalgia. There’s jazz and poetry cabaret from London Time Bank Purple Poets and Mobo Cabaret, along with buskers, street performance and fairground attractions.

Its all taking place between 2pm-6pm on 19 August at the Bernie Spain Gardens next to the Oxo Tower Wharf on London’s South Bank. The nearest Tubes are Waterloo or Blackfriars and admission is free. Map